Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man(2002)

Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man is a historical drama based on the true story of Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian cattle dealer and fascist sympathizer who became an unlikely savior during World War II. When Italy signed an armistice with the Allies, Perlasca found himself stranded in Nazi-occupied Budapest. Rather than accept the horrors unfolding around him, he risked everything to protect Hungarian Jews from deportation and death. Using forged documents, strategic bribes, and audacious deception, Perlasca managed to save over 5,000 lives—an extraordinary act of resistance that contradicted his own political past. The series chronicles how an ordinary man, confronted with genocide, chose conscience over ideology and became a righteous gentile whose courage defied the darkness of the Holocaust.